Quotes About Stereotype

All my friends were in the park smoking weed and getting pregnant. I didn't want to be the young black girl having a baby, a baby's father, being on welfare. That wasn't going to be my story.

There's something every woman wants, and that's a man to blame.

It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.

I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.

There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.

I'm not for women, frankly, in any job. I don't want any of them around. Thank God we don't have any in the Cabinet.

If you're a host of a video show and you're on the cleanest show on television for eight years, people want to say, 'Well, that's what that person does.' That was the dilemma for me, career-wise.

It's bad enough that I'm an actress that wants to be recognized as an actress. Instead, I am known for doing game shows.

I've learned that sometimes when people don't like what you have to say, and don't want to debate you on ideas, it's just easier to call you a dumb blonde from Fox News.

People will know you for whatever they want to know you for.

Don't send me your script if you want me to play the black best friend; I just won't do that.

They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.

I did a modeling gig once, but I am not a model. I want to be a model because it's a lot easier than acting.

If you become a star known for one thing, that becomes your thing, and you don't want that, on some DNA level.

It's fair to say average Americans think that the average Afghan doesn't want American troops in their country.

I wear glasses because I don't want something tugging my eyeball, but I wouldn't consider myself a "nerd." I don't know what really makes someone a nerd.

I live in Minnesota. Lots of people assume that if you want to be an actor, you have to live in Hollywood, but not me.

It's weird because I always seem to be dead. I'm gonna have to change that because I wouldn't want to be typecast.

The first thing I want to make clear is that this violence, this terrorism, is not cultural. It isn't integral either to Arab or Muslim culture. I've done too many briefings for senators and congressmen who think that all 'towelheads' carry a pistol and a grenade. If you can't see beyond this stereotype, then we might as well stop now.

hackerese pejorative.

When you say anything controversial, you are likely to be blamed not so much for what you have said as for what people think that someone who has said what you said would also say.

99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

This Englishwoman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.

I learned to change my accent in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.